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Book review:

No Constitutional Right to be Ladies:

Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

by Linda K. Kerber (b1940)

New York: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998

405 pages

Kerber, a well-respected historian, makes what should be an obvious point: women are citizens, just like men, and they should share all the rights and obligations of citizenship.

She disputes, in compelling detail, that women have a constitutional right “to be ladies” when that is conceived as separating them from a complete status as functioning citizens who are the constitutional equals of men (even the ones they’ve married!).

In my mind, it’s not a “feminist” thing or a “suffrage” thing. It’s a matter-of-fact thing—nothing about it doesn’t make sense.

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